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New York Entomological SocietyVOL. XXXVI MARCH, 1928 No. 1

NOTES ON THE HETEROPTERA OF EASTERNNORTH AMERICA WITH DESCRIPTIONS

OF NEW SPECIES, I

By W. S. BLATCHLEYINDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

This is the first of a series of supplements to my " Heteropteraof Eastern North America" which was issued October 18, 1926.During the year which has elapsed I have collected at Gaines-ville, Dunedin and Royal Palm Park, Florida, and at variouspoints in Indiana, and have found several species which areevidently undescribed, and have identified others which werenot included in that work. The known range of a number ofspecies has also been extended by the published papers of sev-eral authors which have appeared during the year as well asby my own investigations. I also make brief mention of thenew species of Heteroptera which have been described by othersduring the year from the territory covered by my work. Fromthese "Notes and Descriptions," and from others which I hopeto publish from time to time in the future, the student maykeep informed as to the status of this interesting group of in-sects in eastern North America, and may the more readilyidentify his specimens and keep his collection up to date.

In the notes which follow the first number before each speciesmentioned is the serial number of that species in the " Heterop-

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tera," and the one in parenthesis is the serial number of thespecies in Van Duzee's " Catalogue of the Hemiptera of AmericaNorth of Mexico. " A dash instead of a number denotes that thespecies was not included in one or the other or both of theseworks.

Family PODOPIDJE18 (-). PODOPS PENINSULARIS Blatchley.-A single male

of this little turtle bug was taken February 21, 1927, at Gaines-ville, Fla., while sweeping along the margins of a pond. It wasknown before only from Dunedin and Royal Palm Park, thatstate.

Family CORIMELENID1E31 (37). CORIMEI.ENA PULIcARLA (Germar).-This common

northern negro bug is apparently very scarce in Florida. It wasconfused by both Van Duzee (1909) and Barber (1914) withC. marginella Dallas, the common species in that state. Duringsixteen years collecting in Florida I have taken not over half adozen examples of pulicaria and these only at Dunedin andRoyal Palm Park.

Family PENTATOMID.X95 (143). HYMENARCYS NERVOSA (Say) .-A single ex-

ample of this species was taken by A. N. Tissot at Gainesville.Fla., Nov.ember 29, by passing "Reindeer moss" through aBerlese funnel. Known in that state heretofore only from Sara-sota and Ft. Myers.

96 (155). MENECLES INSERTTS (Say).-This bug has re-cently been taken at Gainesville, Fla. It was not known fromthat state when the "Heteroptera" was written, the most south-ern station therein given being Raleigh, North Carolina.

115 (187). BANASA PACKARDI Stal.-Both this species andB. euchlora were beaten in numbers from red cedar near Dune-din during the winter of 1926-'27. Adults and nymphs in vari-ous stages occurred throughout the winter.

125b (207d). STIRETRUS ANCHORAGO VIOLACEUS (Say).-Asingle example was taken at Royal Palm Park, Fla., February26, by F. M1. Jones.

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128 (210). ALCOORRHYNCHUS GRANDIS (Dallas).-This largepentatomid was also taken at the Park, February 28, by Mir.Jones.

Family COREIDAI157 (249). LEPTOGLOSSUS FUJLVICORNIS (Westwood) .-Two

specimens were taken at Gainesville, Fla., February 21, 1927,while beating holly in low open oak woods. Known definitelyheretofore from that state only from Dunedin.

163 (258). PHTHIA PICTA (Drury).-IUntil February, 1927,I had not taken this species personally. I then began to find iton squash vines in my garden at Dunedin. Both young andadults occurred in small numbers until April. It is also in theExperiment Station collection at Gainesville, from Ft. Lauder-dale and Gainesville.

(280). SEPHINA- GUNDLACHI (Guerin), 1857, 377.-Thislarge and handsome coreid differs from S. grayi Van D., as de-scribed on page 237 of the "Heteroptera," in having the apexof hind pronotal angles and a large spot on middle of coriumvelvety black. It was described from the West Indies and wasrecorded by Banks (1910, 81) from "Fla." As no definiterecord of its occurrence in Florida could be found it was notincluded in the "Heteroptera." On March 28, 1927, I took atRoyal Palm Park, Fla., several large nymphs, and, on April15, a half dozen adults of gwndlacki. These were all beatenfrom a large mass of slender stems of the climbing milkweed,Aetastelma scoparium Nutt., on the margin of the hammock onParadise Key. This milkweed is also the host plant of S. grayiVan D., and, aside from the difference in coloration above stated,the only appreciable difference between the two forms is that thescutellumn is almost flat in grayi while in gundlachi there is adistinct transverse ridge with a furrow behind it; the puncturesof both pronotum and elytra are also somewhat deeper and morenumerous in the latter species. It is possible that a large serieswill show that grayi is only a race or color variety of gundlachi.Dr. Carl J. Drake informs me that a single specimen of gundlachifrom Gulfport, Fla., is in his collection.

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Family CORISCIDAE189 (-). PROTENOR AUSTRALIS Hussey.-An adult and a

last instar nymph of this recently described species were takenat Royal Palm Park, April 18, while sweeping herbage in aswale of the Caribbean pinelands. Like the northern P. belfrageiHagl., it is probably an inhabitant mainly of the marshlands.

Family CORIZIDAEMr. W. E. China has called my attention to the fact that

Corizus hyalinus Fabr. differs from our other species in possess-ing "scent glands," and therefore osteolar openings. The firstphrase of aa in the Key to Families of Coreoidese on page 208of the "Heteroptera" should therefore be changed to read:"Osteolar openings usually absent; when present, placed be-tween the middle and hind coxas near the median line and pro-vided with two short, diverging furrows;" and in the 14th lineon page 270 the words "except in Corizus hyalinus Fabr."should be placed after the word "obsolete."

Family ARADID2268 (417). ANEURUS FISxKEI Heidemann. My second speci-

men was taken June 9, in Marion Co., Ind., by sweeping herbagealong a pathway in dense woodlands.

Family TINGIDIDE- (6441/4). CORYTHITCHA MORRILLI Osborn & Drake, 1917,

298.-This southwestern species has been recently taken at Dune-din and Royal Palm Park, in February and March by siftinggrass roots and sweeping low herbage along the margins ofswales. It is about 3 mm. in length and belongs under b ofthe key in Group C, page 460, of the "Heteroptera. " From mar-morata, which it closely resembles in markings, it is distin-guished by having the marginal ciliae of paranota and elytramuch shorter and more crowded, lateral carinae of pronotumlonger and higher, curved outward, 'each with six or sevenareol,; elytra longer, narrower, with sides visibly concave andhyaline cells between the two dark apical cross-bars, larger. This

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is the first record from east of the Mississippi. It is said to becommon in Colorado and Arizona.

433 (-). CORYTIIAICA FLORIDANA Blatch.-The secondknown example of this little tingid has been received fromMessrs. Watson and Tissot of Gainesville. It was taken frommoss collected from logs and stumps, November 2, 1926, at Citra,Fla., and afterwards put through a Berlese funnel. The uniquetype was from Dunedin, Fla.

465 (-). IIESPEROTINGIS A"NTENNATA Parshley.-Severalexamples of the brachypterous form of this tingid were beatenon each of three occasions in January, 1927, from bunches ofSpanish moss hanging from the lower limbs of red oak, Quercusrubra L., growing in open pine woods near Dunedin, Fla. Theseoaks were several miles apart and, though the dense clumps ofmoss attached to nearby pines and other trees were thoroughlybeaten, it was only on those attached to the oaks that the bugwas found. It has not before been recorded south of Wash-iugton, D. C.

468 (677): ATHEAS ExIGIUS Heidemann.-The types of thisminute tingid were from Sevenoaks, Fla., only five miles frommy winter home at Dunedin. I have tried unsuccessfully for tenyears to find it. After returning to Indianapolis in May, 1927,I found a single example of the tingid in a capsule containingspecimens of the little lygfeid, Cymus belZus Van D., which I hadswept in April from low herbage about the margins of a pond,near Dunedin. It has heretofore been definitely recorded onlyfrom the type locality.

476 (). LEPTOYPHA IIa1cis Drake.-One example of thisspecies was taken at Gainesville, Fla., February 23, by beatingVaccininum. It is much darker, with hind portion of hind lobeof pronotum and discoidal areas distinctly more coarsely punc-tate, than in the one from Lake Wales, mentioned inl the "He-teroptera."

Family PLOIARIIDiE491 (698). EMPICORIS TUBERCULATUS (Banks.)-lVy first In-

diana example of this well-marked species was beaten, August27, 1927, from the foliage of bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa

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Miclix., in Marion Co., Ind. The species of Empicoris are ap-parently scarce in this state, but three having so far been taken.504 (-). PLOIARIA SETULIFERA McAtee & Malloch.-In the

key of McAtee and Malloch, as well as in my work, the relativelengths of the antennal segments of this species are wronglystated. In their key (1925, 50) they state--"apical antennalsegment shorter than subapical, equal to it only in setutifera."In fact, the relative lengths of the last three segments are: seg-ment 2 one-fourth longer than 3, segment 4 two-fifths the lengthof 3.

Family REDUVIIDA522 (725). GNATHOBLEDA TUMIDULA Stal.-One adult and

two nymphs were taken April 5 at Royal Palm Park, Fla., frombeneath masses of water purslane growing on the rocks alongthe sides of ditches. It has been recorded elsewhere in Floridaonly from Dunedin.

545 (-). ZELUS ANGUSTATUs Hussey.-I was much pleasedat taking, on January 6, my first specimen of this recently de-scribed species. It was beaten from a bunch of Spanish mossnear Dunedin and was known heretofore only from Gaines-ville; Fla.

558 (800). SINEA DIADEMA (Fabricius).-This commonnorthern species is very scarce in Florida. One was swept fromroadside herbage at Royal Palm Park on April 17. It waspreviously known from that state only from Dunedin andBiscayne Bay.

lFamily NABIDA580 (833). NABIS KALMII Reuter.-The specimens recorded

under this name from Marion Co., Ind., are probably only paleexamples of the common N. ferus Linn. and it is very doubtfulwhether kalmii is more than a color variety of that species.The distinctions given by Reuter relate mainly to color and arequoted in the "Heteroptera."

Family N.SOGEID.43588 (-). MERRAGATA SLOSSONI Van Duzee.-In the spring

of 1927 this little velvet water-bug was taken by scores at Royal

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Palm Park, by pulling masses of living Chara from the wateron to the sides of a roadside limestone ditch, and then waitingfor the bugs to crawl about over the bare rock. It was knownheretofore only from Moore Haven and Biscayne Bay, thatstate.

Family ANTHOCORIDE598 (842). LYoTOCOaIS ELONGATUS (Reuter) .-Dr. C. J.

Drake has informed me that the specimen recorded on page 625of the "Heteroptera" from Spring Hill, Alabama, should be re-ferred to L. statii Reut.- (.-). JLASIOCrIIUS DIVISUJS Champion.-Drake and

Harris record' this subtropical species from Canal Point, onLake Okeechobee, Fla. They also record L. fusculus Reut. fromCharleston, Miss., and Dechard, Tenn.

601 (-). LASIOCIInLUS GERHARDI Blatchley.-Dr. Drake in-forms me that this minute brachypterous species is in the Parsh-ley collection from Tyngsboro, Mass. It has been hithertoknown only from Dunedin, Fla., the type locality.

606 (852). ASTHENIDEA TEMNOSTETHOIDES Reuter.-Theknown range of this species has been greatly extended by therecords of Drake and Harris (loc. cit. p. 37). They record itfrom Miami, Marathon and Paradise Key, Fla., and Kerry-ville, Texas.

618 (-). PHYSOPLEURELLA FLORIDANA Blatchley.-Ex-amples of this species are in the U. S. National Museum collec-tion from Jamaica. It has been heretofore known only fromDunedin, Fla., the type locality.

619 (867). CA.DIASTETHUS ASSIMILIS (Reuter).-Examplesof this species are in the U. S. National Museum collection fromas far north as Norfolk, Va., where it was bred from a corn ear.It is very common in Florida.

623 (871). DUOTURIELLUS ATER Dufour.-This Europeanspecies is now know from Los Angeles, Cal. I have also seen aspecimen from Henderson, Ky.

Messrs. Carl J. Drake and Halbert M. Harris, of Ames, Iowa,are at present engaged in preparing a much needed revision of

1 Proe. Biol. Soe. of Washington, Yol. 39, 1926, 35.

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the North American. species of this family. They issued, July30, 1926, a preliminary paper which appeared in Proc. Biol. Soc.of Washington, Vol. 39, pp. 33-45, entitled "Notes on AmericanAnthocoridv with Descriptions of New Forms." Of the nine-teen forms described as new, eight were from the territory cov-ered by the "Heteroptera," but their paper appeared too latefor the inclusion of these in my work. They were as follows:

-(-). LASIOCIILUS HIRTELLUS D. and H. loc. cit., p. 33.-This form they described from Alabama, Gainesville, Fla. andnumerous stations in the southwestern states. It is the samespecies as that included by me as Lasiochilus pallidulqus Reuter,one of the most common Anthocorids in southern Florida, andthe name of Drake and Harris is probably only a synonym of thatof Reuter.

- (-). LASIOCHILUS COMITIALIS D. & H., loc. cit., p. 34.--Described from specimens in the U. S. National Museum takenon Iicoria at Hendersonville and Tryon, North Carolina. Aspecies 2.8 mm. in length, the head pronotum and base ofscutellum shining rufo-piceous.

-(I-). XmOCORIS BETULINUS D. & H., loc. cit., p. 37.--.Described from a single male, taken June 23, at Cranberry Laake,New York, from a worm burrow in a fallen yellow birch."Closely related to X. galactinus Fieb., but distinguished bythe much broader pronotum which has the posterior lobe dis-tinctly depressed." (D. & H.)

(-). MACROTRACHELIELLA LTEVIS FLORIDANA D. & H.,loc. cit., p. 37.-Described from U. S. National Museum speci-mens taken by Schwarz and Knab at Key West, Fla., from gallsof thrips on Ficus indica. "Differs from typical ltvis Champ.in having the entire third antennal segment flavous and theclavus, except margins, whitish."'' (D. & H.)Drake and Harris (loc. cit., p. 38), founded the genus Xeno-

tracheliella allied to Macrotrachelia Reut. and MacrotracheliellaChamp., but having the anteocular portion, of head longer thanpost-ocular one; pronotum with a deep transverse furrow atmiddle, truncate in front, emarginate behind, narrowly mar-gined; antennae stout, joint 1 reaching apex of head, 2 subequalin length to head; 3 and 4 united slightly longer than 2; osteolar

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canal sloping obliquely forward, slightly curved. They includedthree species, two from the eastern states.

-(-). XENOTRACHELIELLA INIMICA D. & H., loc. cit., p.38.-Dark brown to fuscous, the middle of clavus and a trans-verse fascia at apex of corium white; joint 2 of beak reachingmiddle of mesosternum; length 2.85 mm. Described from asingle female taken, July 2, at Ithaca, N. Y.- (-). XENOTRACHEILIELLA VICARJA D. & H., loc. cit., p.

39.-Differs from inimica in having the body less flattened, ocelliless widely separated, side margins of pronotum wider; joint 2of beak reaching base of mesostern-um; clavus pale testaceous,its inner margin piceous; length 2.87 mm. Described from amale taken, August 28, at Marquette, Mich.

(-). TETRAPHLEPS EDACIS D. & H., loe. cit., p. 43.-Length 3.66 mm. "Resembles T. osborni Drake, but hemleytradarker; beak shorter, scarcely reaching intermediate coxa;osteolar canal nearly straight." (D. & H.). Described froma single female, taken by Drake, August 3, at Wanakena, N. Y.,from Larix laricina (DuRoi).- (-). SCOLOPOSCELIS MISSISSIPPIENsis D. & H., loc. cit.,

p. 43.-" Differs from S. flavicornis Reut. in having the pronotumbroader anteriorly, elytra much shorter, anterior and posteriorfemora greatly and equally incrassate. Length 2.76-3 mm."(D. & H.). Types taken at Ft. Gibson, Mississippi, July 22,from burrows of bark-beetles (Ips. sp ¶) in long-leaf pine.

Family CRYPTOSTEMMATIDAE626 (-). SCHIZOPTERA BISPINA MeAtee & Malloch.-A

fourth example of this little bug is at hand. It was taken at Ft.Myers, Fla., March 5, while sifting debris from the bottom of anextinct wet-weather pond. Taken before in this country only atDunedin, Fla.

Family MIRIDAE674 (). lBIONEUS GUTTICORNIS Blatchley.-Knight,2 folb

lowing Poppius (1912), has pointed out that the genus Eioneus

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Distant (1893) is a synonym of Dolichomiris Reut. (1882), andthat the species I named E. gutticorni's is probably the same asthe genotype Dolichomiris ltinearis Reut. The genotype wasfrom Addah, West Africa. It is also recorded by Reuter (1912)from Palma, the Madeira and Canary Islands, the Alps-Mari-times of France,. and Venezuela. From the latter country it wasredescribed by Reuter as D. tibialis and from the Canary Islandsby Noualhier as Notostira longula; these names, as probably thatof mine, being synonyms of D. Zinearis Reut.On December 22 and 27, 1926, I found this mirid in numbers

on flowers of the Natal grass, Ticholoena rosea Nees, growing inopen sandy woodland about one-fourth mile back of the bayfront near Dunedin, Fla. Prof. Paul Weatherwax informs methat the original home of this introduced grass was in SouthAfrica, but that it is now widely distributed in tropical and semi-tropical regions. It has been known in Florida since 1884.There is, therefore, little doubt but that this grass is the true andoriginal host plant of the mirid and that together they havejourneyed far and wide across the seas.

652 (-). TRIGONOTYLUS LONGICORNIS Blatchley.-Addi-tional examples of this species were taken in December, 1926,from the tall grasses of tide-water marshes near the bay frontat Dunedin. Both this and the preceding probably occur onlyin the immediate vicinity of salt-water.

673 (920). NEUROCOLPUS NUBMUS (Say) .-My first and onlyFlorida example of this common northern mirid was taken atRoyal Palm Park, March 25, 1927, while beating the foliage ofwhite bay. It is a female, 11.8 mmt. in length, a uniform paledull yellow throughout, the only deviation from this color beingin the antenne, joint 1 being sprinkled with reddish dots, 2 withapical third dull red, 3 and 4 pale yellow. The tibie lack thefuscous rings of typical nubilus, and the upper surface is muchmore densely, coarsely, and conspicuously pubescent, the tuftsof hairs on basal half of pronotum being especially notable. Thelarger size and other characters mentioned are believed sufficientto justify the varietal name flavescens, which I therefore give it.

682 (971). GARGANUS FUSIFORMIS (Say).-A single examplewas taken at Dunedin, Fla., on April 27. Recorded elsewherein that State only from Jacksonville and Crescent City.

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716 (934). PHYTOCORIS EXIMiUS IReuter.-On Sept. 5, 1927,this widely distributed phytocorid was beaten by scores fromthe foliage of a hedge-row of Spirea van-houttei Zabel, on thebanks of White River, eight miles north of Indianapolis.

-(-). Phytocoris radicola new species.Elongate, slender, sides subparallel. Pale brownish-yellow, thinly clothed

with sukerect yellowish hairs; basal half of pronotum faintly tinged withfuseous; scutellum lemon-yellow; corium with an oblique brown dash infront of middle and a shorter one near inner apical angle; cuneus with ex-treme tip and two small dots on inner margin, piceous; membrane pale fus-cous, the veins yellowish; hind femora dull yellow with a very faint darkerring at apical fourth. Beak reaching first ventral, its tip piceous. Joint1 of antennae dull yellow, one-sixth longer than width of head across eyes;2 yellow, its apex fuscous, two and a third times as long as 1; 3 and 4fuscous, 3 one-half the length of 2, 4 two-fifths as long as 3. Sides ofelytra straight and parallel to apical fifth, thence broadly curved into therounded tips. Length 4.2 mm.

Crawford Co., Ind., August 30; swept from roadside herbage.Belongs in Group IV, p. 724 of the "Heteroptera," but differsfrom other members by its nearly uniform pale color and ar-rangement of piceous markings of upper surface.

743 (961). CREONTIADES FILICORNIS (Walker).-As shown inthe footnote to page 884 of the "Heteroptera, " this is a Eustictusand is the same as Eustictus grossus (Uhler), Walker's namehaving priority. This information was not received from W. E.China until after the page treating of the species of Creontiadeshad been printed. Not having Walker's unique type for exam-ination, I followed Distant and Van Duzee in treating it as aCreo~ntiades.

835 (919). PARAXENETUS GUTTULATUS (Uhler) .-Twenty ormore examples of this usually scarce species were taken, August27-September 1, by beating foliage of dogwood and wild grapegrowing in a fence row along the river lowland in Marion Co.,Ind.

839 (1186). SEMIUM HIRTUM Reuter.-Posey County, Imd.,Sept. 22, is a new station record for this species, hitherto re-corded from that state only from Marion Co.

849 (-). PILOPEORUS BRIMLEYi Blatchley.-This specieswas described before I had opportunity to study the generic de-

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JOURNAL NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY [Vol. XXXVTIscription of Barberiella Poppius, his paper not being availableto me until July 19, 1926. Knight, in his description of Bar-beriella apicaltis (Hemiptera of Connecticut, p. 657), gave nocharacterization whatever of the genus Barberiella except threelines of a brief key. In a letter received from C. S. Brimleydated Sept. 8, 1926, he wrote: ."Dr. Knight has been here andexamined the type specimen' of your Pilophorus brirnleyi. Hesaid it belonged to the genus Barberiella and was apparentlynew." Later,3 Dr. Knight reversed this opinion and madebrimnleyi a synonym of his apicalis. Until the types of the twospecific names can be compared I prefer to call the specimen Idescribed Barberiella brimnleyi (Blatch.).

856 (1131). PILOPHORUS AMCENUS IJhler.-According toKnight4 my Fig. 179 represents P. strobicola Kngt and not P.amcenus. Dr. Drake informs me that this error was due toKnight having erroneously determined for him the species takenat Cranberry Lake, N. Y., and mentioned in my text as ammcnus.No mention of this error was on record at the time my text wa.sprepared. Knight, loc. cit., states that P. arncenus breeds onlyon the Jersey or scrub pine, Pinus virginiana Mill.

- (-). ceratocapsus insperatus new species.Elongate, slender, sides parallel. Black, feebly shining, basal fifth of

pronotunm and basal half of elavus sometimes slightly paler; membranedusky translucent, distinctly iridescent; femora piceous-brown, antenna andlegs a paler brown. Eyes of male very large and very coarsely granulated,distinctly wider than interocular area. Beak reaching hind eoxae. Joint 1of antenna as long as width of vertex; 2 visibly thickened from base toapex, three and a half times as long as 1; 3 and 4 subequal in length, unitedthree-fourths the length of 2, 4 fusiform, slightly stouter than 3. Uppersurface not visibly punctate or alutaceous, the elytra only very sparselypubescent with fine scattered erect black hairs. Length 5 mm.

Described from two males taken at Dunedin, Fla., March18-20, at porch light. Belongs under e. of the key to Group I, p.821. Allied to C. modestus (Uhler) but longer, more parallel,'with much larger eyes, narrower vertex and different relative

_ Bull. Brooklyn Bnt. Soc., XXII, 1927, 102.4 Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., XXII, 1927, 103.

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lengths of antennal segments. One of the males was recordedas modestus on p. 823 of the " Heteroptera. " The Florida recordof that species is therefore to be eliminated.

951 (1073). HALTICOTOMA VALIDA Reut.- Knight has re-cently recorded5 this species from South. Carolina, Tennessee,Mississippi and Gainesville, Fla. It occurs in the east on theflowers of Spanish bayonet and other cultivated species of Yucca.

HIEMISPAItRODELL.A Reuter, 1908, 297.

Small semiglobose black species possessing in great part thecharacters of the subfamily Bryocorinse, as given on page 866of the "Heteroptera," and having the head strongly transverse,but slightly narrower than base of pronotum, its front almostvertical; antenne slightly longer than body, joint 1 as long aswidth of vertex, 3 and 4 subequal, each one-third longer than 2;pronotum transverse, convex, without a collar, calli prominent,almost reaching the side margins, the disk impressed in front andbehind them; scutellum very large, as long as pronotum, equilat-eral; elytra wholly coriaceous, as long as and closely embracingthe sides of abdomen, clavus, cuneus and membrane not differ-entiated but merged with the corium, the latter with inner mar-gin strongly angulate at middle, serrate in front of the angle,concave behind it, thus surrounding and leaving exposed alanceolate middle piece (the "metadorsum" of Reuter). This,in reality, is composed of the heavily chitinized sutural marginof each of the inner wings which are thus elevated to form whatReuter mistook for a longitudinal median carina; legs very longand slender, tibiae without spines, finely pilose. But one speciesis known.- (-). HEMISPHAERODELLA MIRABXILIS Reuter, Wiener

Ent. Zeit., XXVII, 1908, 298.Black, glabrous, shining; beak, cheeks, antennae and legs a uni-

form whitish yellow; under surface pale brown. Head andpronotum in front of calli almost smooth; pronotum behind thecalli, scutellum, metathorax and elytra rather coarsely andclosely punctate; basal half of elytra (corium) each with threevague, smooth, obtuse diverging ridges. Length 1.5-2 mm.

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This very aberrant little mirid, here for the first time recordedfrom this country, was described by Reuter from specimens takenat Cayanos, Cuba, by E. A. Schwarz, and at St. Domingo byAug. Busek. On April. 3, 1925, I took a number of specimensby beating the foliage of moonvine, Ipomncea bona-nox L., atRoyal Palm Park, Fla. Some of them, as No. 35, were sent H.H. Knight for naming. He returned them as "nymphs of Halti-cUs." While they were apparently far different in form of bodyand long pale legs from any Halticuts known to me, I accepted hisdetermination and did not include them in my "Heteroptera. "In December, 1926, after that work was published, I again sweptthe little bug in numbers from the foliage of sweet potato,Ipomcea batatis Lam., growing in low moist mucky soil nearDunedin, Fla. All stages were taken and the adults were quicklyrecognized as such. Not having the necessary literature fortheir identification, I, this time, sent specimens to E. P. VanDuzee who, after some time, found the description of Reuter ascited above. The insect probably occurs on various species ofIpomcea to which genus of plants it is apparently confined. Inits form of body, peculiar elytra and presence of the so-called"metadorsum " it differs widely from any of our easternMiride, and the genus should probably be given subfamily rank.

971 (1092). FULVIUS IMBECILIS Knight.-The known easternrange of this species has been extended by records of Knight(1927, 37) to include Virginia, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama andGainesville, Fla.1015 (1116). MACROLOPHUS SEPARATUS (Uhler).-A single

example of this species was taken in-Marion Co., Ind., Sept. 11,1926, while sweeping herbage in dense woodland. Recorded inthat State only from Lake County.Knight has recently published a Key to the North American

Species of Macrolophus6 and described two new species, one ofwhich, longicornis, is a synonym of my C. tenuicornis, page 913of the "Heteroptera." He gives its distribution as Branford,Conn., Cranberry Lake and Wanakena, N. Y., and Muskoka LakeDistrict, Ontario.

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- (-). MACROLOPntTS BREVICORNIS Knight, loc. cit., p.315.-Length 3.6 mm. "Differs from separatuts Uhler in havinga fuscous stripe behind dorsal margin of eye; antennal segmentII with apical one-fourth blackish; basal two-thirds of coriumwithout fuscous points at base of hairs except one row borderingclaval suture. " (Knight).Ranges from New Jersey and Maryland, west to Iowa and

Kansas.AIHBLYTY'LUS Fieber, 1858, 325.7

This genus of the subfamily Phylinie and tribe Oncotylinicompromises small elongate mirids having the head pentagonalor subconical, almost horizontal; tylus very prominent, project-ing beyond the blunt tips of cheeks; lorm long, pointed, narrow;antenna inserted between the eyes and base of cheeks; eyessmall, subglobose, widely separated, contiguous with frontmargin of pronotum; beak reaching or surpassing hind coxae;xyphus triangular, arched, its edges carinate; pronotun trans-verse, subtrapezoidal; scutellum triangular, equilateral; meso-seutum narrowly exposed. Elytra reaching apex of abdomen,female, slightly surpassing it, male; joint 2 of hind tarsi slightlylonger than either 1 or 3, tarsal claws divaricate, pseudaroliaattached to the claws along their full length but not projectingbeyond their tips.

The genus belongs under aa of the key, page 918 of the "Heter-optera," and differs from Lopuis in the longer subporrect head,prominent tylus, short blunt cheeks, less broadly exposedmesoscutum and shorter pseudarolia. A. half dozen or so speciesare known from southern Europe, and the first one taken in thiscountry is herewith described.- (-). Amblytylas vanduzeei new speeies.

Elongate or elongate-oval. Dull greenish-yellow, fading to straw-yellowwith a greenish tinge, thinly clothed with short subereet bristle-like hairs;membrane pale dusky translucent. Joints I and 2 of antenna yellow, 1slightly passing tip of tylus, one-fifth shorter than width of vertex; 2slender, cylindrical, three times the length of 1; 3 and 4 more slender,fuseous; 3 but slightly shorter than 2, 4 one-third as long as 3. :Beak

7 Critirien zur Generischen Theilung der Phytocoriden (Capsini Aut.)Wiener Ent. Monats, II, No. 10, 1858, 289-327; No. 11, 328-347.

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reaching second ventral. Thorax one-half wider at base than apex, sidesstraight, gradually converging from base to apex, thdir margins narrowlyexplanate, feebly reflexed, hind angles rounded; disk shallowly, almost in-visibly, punctate, transversely impressed in front of middle; calli small,well separated, placed obliquely in the depression. Elytra elongate-oval, notwider at base than thorax, sides very feebly but visibly curved from baseto apex; disk punctate as the thorax, each minute puncture, as there, bear-ing a short blackish hair. Length 5 mm.

Described from one male taken in Marion Co., md., June 9,1927, by sweeping herbage along a pathway in upland woods,and two females taken June 15 in Brown Co., Ind., in a similarhabitat. Named in honor of the eminent North American hemip-terist, E. P. Van Duzee, of San Francisco., Cal., who cited me tothe literature descriptive of the genus.

1090 (1244). PsALLus VARIABmiDS (Fallen) .-My inclusionof this European species in the "Heteroptera" was based on therecords of Van Duzee (1889, 4; 1894, 179). Knight (1927, 104)states that the Van Duzee specimens were wrongly determinedand that variabilis probably does not occur in this country.

- (-).-Psallus conspurcatus new species.Elongate-oval. Head, thorax and scutellum pale lemon yellow without

reddish or darker markings; elytra pale yellow, everywhere thickly fleekedwith very small brownish spots, from which arise suberect blackish hairs;inner margin of euneus with two oblong fuscous dashes; membrane paleyellow, thickly mottled with small fuscous vermiculate maxks, the outer halfwith a pale spot opposite apex of euneus, this followed by two wedge-shapedfuscous spots; femora pale yellow, flecked with very minute brownish dota;tibize yellow with conspicuous black dots at base of each spine. Antenngevery slender, wholly pale yellow, joint 1, one-half as long as width ofvertex; 2 five times as long as 1; 3 one-half the length of 2, 4 two-fifths aslong as 3. Length 6 mm.

Type a male taken at Royal Palm Park, Fla., April 18, 1927,by sweeping grasses in a swale of the Caribbean pine woodland.Allied to P. seriatus (Reut.) but head and pronotum withoutdark spots, membrane with different markings and secondantennal much longer and more slender.

-(-). PSALLUS BALLI Knight, Can. Ent., LVIII, 1926,253.-'"'Distinguished from the known eastern species by the

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pale yellow to orange color and conspurcate character of themembrane; more strongly red on pronotum, scutellum andcuneus; apical half of clavus infuscated; length 3.5 mm."(Knight).Described from Sanford, Fla., and Charleston, Miss.1098 (1268). CYLLOCEPS PELLICIA Uhler.-Knight states8 that

the type of this species in the U. S. National Museum shows it tobelong to the genus Cyrtorhinus. Its name should therefore beCyrtorhinus pelticius (Uhl.).

1100 (-). EXCENTRICUS MEXICANUS Van Duzee.-An-other example of this little western species was taken at Dunedin,January 4, 1927, by beating juniper.

(1272). RRINACLOA FORTICORNIS Reuter, 1876, 89.-Differs from B. subpaZlicornis Knight in the smaller size (1.8mm.), darker color, the elytra being fuscous, paler at base ofcorium and on clavus; membrane blackish with veins testaceous;second antennal wholly dark.

This species was described from Texas and recorded by Bar-ber (1914, 500) from Lake Worth and Biscayne Bay, Fla. Idid not include it in the "Heteroptera" as I supposed that Bar-ber's records referred to subpallicornis. Knight (1927, 36) hasrecorded forticornis from Urbana, Ill., and many points west ofthe Mississippi.

Since those pages of the Heteroptera embracing the familyMiride were in type, Dr. H. H. Knight has issued 11 paperswhich include descriptions of a number of new species and re-cords of others from the territory covered by my work. It isnot feasible in this paper to include descriptions of his newspecies, but the title of each of his papers in the order in whichthey appeared, and the names and distribution of those easternspecies not previously mentioned in this paper, is given. Thestudent interested can thereby keep trace of the eastern speciesand, if he so desires, refer to the descriptions in the papers cited.

I. "Descriptions of Eleven New Species of Phytocoris fromEastern North America." (Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., XXI,Oct. 6, 1926, pp. 158-168.)

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Describes Phytocoris borealis from Gull Lake, Ontario andJamestown, N. Y.; P. albifacies from Agricultural College, Miss.;P. oppositus from Aberdeen, Miss.; P. schotti from Bound Brook,N. J.; P. albitylus (No. 712 of the Heteroptera) from Dunedin,Fla.; P. exemplus from Colyell, Louisiana; P. angustifrons (No.731 of the HIeteroptera) from Dunedin, Fla., Colyell, La., andAberdeen, Miss.; P. signatipes from Silver Springs, Fla.; P.taxodii from Colyell and Sheriden, La., Okefenokee Swamp, Ga.and Durant, Natchez and Vicksburg, Miss.; P. rubellus (No. 738of the "Heteroptera") from Laporte Co., Lad., and various sta-tions west of the Mississippi, and P. balti from St. Augustine,Fla.I. "Capsus externnus Herrich-Schseffer is a Paracalocoris."

(Ent. News, XXXVII, Oct. 15, 1926, pp. 258-262.)Describes from Florida and Georgia vars. solutus, scissus,

totus and nrotatus, all "spotted-dog" color varieties of Para-calocoris externus (H. S.), the species I treat as No. 675, P.incisus (Walk.), p. 695 of the Heteroptera.

III. "Descriptions of Six New Miridve from Eastern NorthAmerica." (Can. Ent. LVIII, Oct. 30, 1926, pp. 252-256.)

Describes Plagiognathus tiliae from District of Columbia,Washtenaw Co., Mich., and St. Paul, Minn.; Psallus baltl fromSanford, Fla., and Charleston, Miss.; Teleorhinus floridanus9(No. 1017 of the Heteroptera) from Dunedin, Fla.; Strongylo-coris palltpes from Beaufort, North Carolina and North Beach,Maryland; Platytylellus zonatus from Cheboygan Co., Mich.,Wisconsin and other points west of the Mississippi, and Platyty-tylellus confraternus cohlaris9 (No. 660, var. of the "Heterop-tera") from Ormond and Gainesville, Fla.

IV. "On the Miride in Blatchley's 'Heteroptera of EasternNorth America,' " (Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., XXII, April 28,1927, pp. 98-105.)No new species were described in this paper, but the names andrange of some were changed or extended as noted on the fore-

going pages.V. "Notes on the Distribution and Host Plants of some North

American Miridte. (Can. Ent., LIX, 1927, 34-44.)9 Since this paper did not appear until after the "Heteroptera" wasissued, these two forms will probably have to be accredited to me.

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This paper gives records extending the former known rangeof a number of species of Miridte treated in the Heteroptera.Some of these extensions are noted on the preceeding pages.Four species are recorded from east of the Mississippi, whichwvere not included in my work. These are:

Platytylellus atripennis Reuter, formerly known only fromTexas and Colorado, recorded from Florida and Coal Creek,Tenn.; Phytocoris breviusculus Reut., a Texan species, recordedfrom Eufaula, Alabama and District of Columbia; Cyrtopelto-coris (Sericophanes) aZbofasciatus Reut., also a Texan species,now known from Eufaula, Alabama, and Lopidea minor Knight,a northwestern species, recorded from Ithaca, N. Y.

VI. "Descriptions of Nine New Species of MelanotrichisReuter from North America." (Can. Ent., LIX, 1927,142-147.)The Genus Melanotrichus comprises the flavosparsus group of

Orthotylus and is distinguished by having two types of pubes-cence, viz., simple hairs intermixed with recumbent scale-likepubescence, and by the left genital claspr of male being a simplecurved hook, not bifurcate into two equal parts as in typicalOrthotylus. According to Knight it includes the followingspecies treated in the "Rhynchophora"; 0. althcece Hussey,catutus Van D., concolor Kirsch. and flavosparsus Sahlb. Thetypes of M. leviculus, one of the nine species described by Knightin the paper cited, were from Sea Cliff, N. Y., the other speciesbeing from the western states and British Columbia.

VII. "Megalopsallus, a New Genus of Miridae with FiveNew Species from North America." (Annals Entom. Soc. ofAmer., XX, 1927, pp. 224-228.)The Genus Megalopsallus differs from PsatZus in having the

head larger, shaped much as in Lygus Hahn; pseudarolia absentand characteristic male genitalia. Of the five species describedin the paper, one variety, M. latifrons diversipes, is recordedfrom Biloxi, Miss., and one species, M. brittoni, from Westvi]le,Conn., the other four species being from the western states.VIII. "New Species and a New Genus of Dercmocorince from

North America." (Bull. Brooklyn Entom. Soc., XXII, 1927, pp.136-143.)

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In this paper Knight describes Dermocoris triannulipesflavisignatus from Marquette, Mich., and Eurychilopterellabrunneata from Clay City, Ill.IX. "Descriptions of Seven New Species of the GIenusOrthotylus Fieber." (Can. Ent.; LIX, pp. 176-181.)Describes 0. ramnus from Mercer Co., Ohio, Berrien Co., Mich.,and Ithaca, N. Y.; 0. utmi from Batavia, Ithaca and Wanakena,N. Y., and Ottawa, Ontario, and 0. nyetalis from CranberryLake, N. Y. lie also records 0. lateralis Van D., formerly knownonly from Kansas and Colorado, from Willow Springs, Ill., whereit was taken on poplar by Gerhard.X. "Descriptions of Fifteen New Species of Ceratocapsus."(Ohio Journal of Science, XXVII, 1927, pp. 143-154.)Describes Ceratocapsus taxodii from various points in Illi-nois, Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida; C. bifurcus from Miamiand Cocoa, Fla.; C. rubricornis from Agricultural College, Miss.;C. divaricatus from Sanford, Fla.; C. balls from Sanford andGainesville, Fla.; C. uniformis from various points between Vir-ginia and Missouri; C. quadrispiculus from Maryland andLouisiana; C. complicatus from Maryland, Florida, Missouri andMississippi; C. fuscosignatus from Florida and southwesternstates; C. barbatus from Virginia and Maryland and C. meateeifrom Maryland.10XI. "Descriptions of Twelve New Species of 11iride from theDistrict of Columbia and Vicinity." (Proc. Biol. Society ofWashington, XL, 1927, pp. 9-18.)Describes Sthenarus mcateei, Microphylehlus minuendus, Pla-giognathus carneolus, P. albifacies, P. crocinus, Psallus clavicor--nis, Diaphnidia heidemanni, Xenoborus chionanthi, Dichrooscy-tus tinctipennis, Phytocoris junipericola, P. purvus and P. difft-cilis, all from the District of Columbia or states adjoining. TheStkensars is recorded also from Mississippi, the Plagiognathusalbifacies from Illinois and the Dichrooscytus from Georgia andMinnesota.

10 In many of the descriptions in this paper the characters are comparedwith other species previously described by Reuter and Knight, and unlesseorrectly determiied examples of these older species are at hand, sucepartsof the descriptions are worthless. See my paperor"Passing the Buck inInsect Deseriptions," Ent. News,eprXX2jIPs

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Family HYDROMETRIDiE(---). SIYDROMETRA MyRE Torre-Bueno.-This species

has been recently described from Billy's Island, OkefenokeeSwamp, Ga. IBueno states'1 that it differs from E. martini Kirk.in its more slender body, different relative length of antennalsegments (2 being 2j times the length of 1 and subequal to 4,whereas in martinqi it is only twice as long as 1 and about four-fifths as long as 4), and in having the terminal abdominal seg-ment of male suddenly widened and with a long black spine.

Family VELIIDS1125 (1303). MIcBoVELIA BOREALIS Bueno.-Numerous ex-

amples of the wingless form of this species have recently beentaken from small ponds and ditches near Dunedin, Fla., in Marchand April. It has not before been recorded south of New Jer-sey and Kansas. The Fig. 198, page 990 of the "Heteroptera,"reproduced from H-ungerford as representing borealis, is in real-ity that of hi'nei, the species having been wrongly identified bythat author.

1126 (13064) MICROVELIA ATRATA Bueno.-A single wing-less example of this little dark species was taken at Dunedin onJanuary 19, while sifting weed debris some distance from water.Hitherto known only from Billy's Island, Ga., and Royal PalmPark, Fla.

1129 (1304). MICROVELLA ALBONOTATA Champion.-Taken byseores from the water of a boxed-in hillside spring near Dunedin,Fla., February 8, 1927. But one macropterous example wasamong the lot. This is the first definite station record forFlorida, though both Van Duzee and Bueno mention the State aswithin its ra~nge.

Family SALDIDA,- (1326). SAIDULA EXNPLANATA Uhler, (Proc. Ent. Soc.

Wash., II, 1893, 383.)Broadly oval or subelliptical, finely and sparsely pubescent.

Head, thorax and scutellum black, rather strongly shining, with-

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out pale markings, elytra black, subopaque, a small whitish spotnear apex of clavus, four on discoidal area and two behind mid-dle of costal area; membrane dull yellow with an oblong medianblack spot in each cell. Pronotum with sides feebly curved,their margins flattened, but little reflexed. Costal area of elytrawith basal half wide, the margins strongly reflexed. Length 4-5mm.A single specimen is at hand, taken on the top of Whiteface

Mountain, New York. It is a northwestern species describedfrom Utah and recorded from California, Idaho and British Co-lumbia, but not before from the eastern states. Resembles S.orbiculata (Uhl.) in size and shape but costal area wider, morereflexed and wholly black except two postmedian pale spots.-- (-). Micranthia pumpila new species.

Oblong-oval. Head pronotum and scutellum black, shining; elavus andinner half of corium black, opaque, without white marks except a minutedot each side of middle of commissure; enibolium and costal area of coriumdull white, with a small black triangular projection from corium just behindmiddle and usually another in front of middle; membrane dull white, theveins and one or two vague spots in each cell fuscous, legs pale dull yellow,the knees, tips of tibiae asud apex of tarsi usually darker; under surfaceblack, thickly clothed with fie, short prostrate hairs, the last ventral paler;upper surface more thinly clothed with similar metallic yellow hairs.Antennae fuscous-brown, joint 1 scarcely longer than width of vertex, 2twice as long as 1, 3 and 4 subequal, each stouter and slightly longer than 2.Beak reaching base of mesosternum. Eyes very large, wider than inter-ocular area. Length 2.2-2.5 mm.

Type a male taken at Royal Palm Park, Fla., April 6, 1927.Paratypes from Dunedin and Ft. Myers, Fla., February 19-April 26. Frequent at both the latter stations on the muckyborders of dry wet-weather ponds in open pine woods. Dis-tinguished from the northern M. humilis (Say) by its muchsmaller and narrower form, lack of white spots on corium, largereyes and different relative length of antennal segments.

Family NERTHRID.J1168 (- ). GELASTOCORIS SUBSIMILIS Blatch.-Examplesof this species taken near Plant City, Florida, have been received

from C. H. Martin, Lawrence, Kans.

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Family CORIXIDzE1208 (1437). ARCTOCORIXA INTERRUPTA (Say).-Numerous

examples of this widely distributed species, taken near Gainies-ville, Fla., are in the collection of the Agricultural ExperimentStation at Gainesville. This is the first record from Florida, andprobably the most southern one for the eastern United States.

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Page35. Second line of b of key, "dorsal" should be "ventral."

498 and 500. Nos. 472 and 476, change "ILeptophya" to"Leptoypha. "

736. No. 747. Replace dash in parenthesis with "992."911. Fifth line. "Wods " should be " woods. "1087. In the last two columns of the table, after Family XXVI.

Isometopidae, "4" should be " 5. "

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